Then weened the country-folk that he was God Himself,
and brought him diadems, and offered him robes
royally fashioned, and desired to offer him
bullocks and rams, as to a mighty god.
Then Thomas announced that they should all come
to an assembly, that he might tell them
what there was for them to do; and they did so.
Then they came again from afar to a field,
and carried many thither diversely afflicted,
that the holy Thomas might heal them.
Then the holy Apostle ordered them to take up all the sick
unto one place, and stood in the midst
with hands upstretched to the heavens, and said:
' O Thou Holy God, invisible ruler,
and continuing unchangeable for ever,
Thou who didst send us Thine Almighty Son,
Who gave us the power that we might heal
all sick and infirm in His name,
and promised us, moreover, that whatsoever we asked
in His holy name of His Heavenly Father,
that same He would grant us as being Almighty God:
now pray we in His name that Thou wouldest heal these infirm ones,
that this people may know with full faith
that Thou art God alone, with Thine only-begotten Son,
and with the Holy Ghost, O ruler of heaven.'
After this invocation, then they said, ' Amen.'
Then came there such a light, as if lightning flashed there,
so that they all thought that they should be destroyed,
and lay long prostrate beside the apostle.
Then Thomas arose up, and bade them arise, and said:
' My Lord Himself hath come hither like shining lightning,
and hath healed you; lift up your heads.'
